In VA8.0 this seems not to be working anymore. What is the recommended way to write messages to the console window in 8.0?--Thomas

I think this functionality is done via EsTTYTools class - even in the preStartUp method they set an instance of TranscriptTTY to global variable Transcript. StsTranscript and TranscriptTTY have more or less the same interface ...

We want to show version and package information upon startup of the headless application. When starting the application in a console window under Windows, this information is shown in the Console window.

I guess this points to the fact that it would be nice if there was just one Windows executable that could adapt itself to development time, GUI runtime, and headless runtime. We're actually partway there: